In this fourteenth edition of PIPA Prize, there is a total of 73 Participating Artists – of which 61 were nominated for the first time – chosen by the Nominating Committee. As the last two editions, the Prize is focused on a more recent production, being directed to artists who had their first solo or group exhibition no longer than 15 years ago. The Prize’s goal is to be a boost for artists at the beginning of their careers who develop distinguished works.
An important moment of every edition takes place with the creation of pages for each Participating Artist on the Prize’s websites (in English and in Portuguese): all artists participating have their own page, with images of works, texts, videos, information about the trajectory, among other contents. These pages that are being created now, added to the existing ones, constitute a source for research on Brazilian contemporary art, and can be later updated with the submission of more material by the artists, thus always being up to date with the new moments of each one’s production.
In addition to this content, the pages also have a videointerview offered by PIPA and carried out by the Do Rio Filmes production company, a format that allows the artists to present their work to the public in a closer and more personal way. These videos are being gradually added to their pages, as they are finished, and will be announced on the Prize’s platforms as well.
In this post, we present bellow recently created pages and videointerviews with some of the PIPA 2023 Participating Artists:
Ana Lira is a visual artist, photographer, curator, radio host, writer and editor based in Brazil. She is a specialist in Social Communication (UFPE) with an emphasis on Theory and Critique of Culture. Her practice is directed mainly to strengthening collaborative creative practices, listening to the communities in which she is involved and dedicating special attention to dynamics involving day-to-day sensibilities. She also articulates perception and mediation processes in order to observe the corollary of power relations affecting day-to-day life and the manner in which we produce knowledge in the world.
Visit the artist’s page here.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2023:
The works take place in drawings, videos, actions, and associations between objects that arise from the action of latent drawing in the world. Daniela reflects about and experiments with the daily writing force – the act of inscribing or graphing –, the atmospheres of words and their instruments. She is interested in the attempts of small impossible tasks, as well as the displacements of meanings, territories and forces that involve the need for inscription of beings – individually and collectively – on the surfaces of everyday life and its reverberations. She understands the field of art as permeable, changing, and not dissociable from her action and thought in education. She sees drawing as a place for action, as a possibility for transforming relationships with lines (imaginary, visual, virtual or concrete), with objects and their deviations from function, with events and their lines of force.
Daniela Seixas is an artist and educator. She experiments with artistic works in different media and conducts daily experiments in education, with special attention to the relationship with drawing/writing. She studied Visual Arts at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and has a master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Processes from the same institution. She teaches Basic Education and the Bachelor of Arts course at the Application Institute Fernando Rodrigues da Silveira (CAp-UERJ), and works in several workshops, educational extension projects, and free art courses for children and young people (EAV-Parque Lage).
Visit the artist’s page here.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2023:
Self-taught, the artist has been developing pictorial and imagery research that covers African ancestral rites and the mythology of the orixás. In his production, full of nuances that extrapolate the themes beyond the religious matter, the Yoruba pantheon is revered as an epistemological force, of ancestral knowledge and mysteries. The figures, or landscapes, as he has been exploring in his recent production, are contemplative and full of personal stories, through fables he creates to guide the features seen in the works.
Visit the artist’s page here.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2023:
Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s sculptures, drawings and videos depart from the need to reformulate how the human body is represented so that its form reflects volition, plurality, and the oscillation of a being that makes itself. Her work engages the history of figurative sculpture, destabilizing its narratives. Her practice explores notions of control over material, and the bodily translation of desire, will and intention.
Visit the artist’s page here.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2023:
Matheus Mestiço, a self-taught artist, grew up around popular festivities such as Folia de Reis and Catopé. He started his artistic production in 2014, with the intention of rescuing his Afro-indigenous ancestry. The choice of his artistic signature follows the phenotype, but also claims the place of miscegenation as a little-explored Brazilian ethnic-racial identity. His research evokes primitive and subjective elements of enchantment, resulting from the contemplation of Nature and Time as a polishing agent of forms. The artist establishes a relationship with other conceptions of Time, such as mythical, circular and logical time. Through different supports, Mestiço develops an intuitive codification, organizing forms, elements and moments that essentially connect, thus constituting a personal pictorial narrative. Mestiço showed his work for the first time in 2022 at the exhibition “Despertar do Inconsciente” at Casa Bicho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His works are now part of private collections.
Visit the artist’s page here.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2023:
Keep an eye on PIPA Prize’s website and social media to check out each week new pages of the Participating Artists, and to watch their videointerviews.